Re: [cobalt-users] NSLOOKUP Produces Non-Authoritative Answer to queries

[Elmer Fuddpucker <elmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Joseph R Brennskag wrote:

} We have Cobalt Raq3i's. When someone does an NSLOOKUP on our DNS Server --
} ns1.hardynet.net -- the system always responds with a non-authoritative
} answer for domains that are hosted on our machine.  I am not sure I
} understand why.

There's absolutely nothing to worry about here. This is the way DNS
works. Basically the first time you look up a name the server is
authoritative. The second time you look up a name it is not. The
reason is simple. The first lookup is just that - a lookup - the
information is passed to nslookup and it is also Cached by the local
name server. The second time you look it up the answer is pulled
from the Cache which results in the nonauthoritative answer.

	It makes sense if you think about it. How can a cache be
authoritative? In other words, is it real (name server - authoritative),
or is it Memorex (cache - nonauthoritative)?

	brent

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